Award-winning filmmaker Jon Alpert takes a cross-country bus tour interviewing a cross-section of American opinion on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, domestic issues and more. [includes transcript]

We host a debate between Richard Perle, the man the Washington Post calls "the intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy" and one of its fiercest critics, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

Perle, a Pentagon adviser and former assistant secretary of defense, calls for the U.S. secession of Saudi oil fields, for regime change in Iran, for the isolation of Syria, possible attacks and a blockade...

President Bush has raised a record $130 million for his 2004 campaign. Charles Lewis of the Center of the Public Integrity talks about how the process of choosing a president has moved from the voting booth to the auction block. [includes transcript]

We speak with author and psychiatry professor Robert Jay Lifton who says, "Superpower syndrome really means an American sense of entitlement to rule the world because it’s the strongest power in the world." [includes transcript]

We hear part 2 of our conversation with Yanar Mohammed, a leading figure of women’s struggle in Iraq. She is one of the founding members of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq and Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Al-Mousawat. [includes transcript]

As 2003 comes to a close, a small number of stories dominate the headlines and newscasts of major media outlets. The Michael Jackson and Koby Bryant cases, the Mad Cow Scare, the nine democratic candidates for president verbally assaulting one another. But there is one word that characterizes 2003 more than any other — war. The war abroad and the war here at home.

On the international front, as the Bush administration expanded its...

Former U.N. Iraqi Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses how he was personally involved in the MI6’s "Operation Mass Appeal" in the late 1990s to "shake up public opinion" by passing dubious intelligence on Iraq to the media. [includes transcript]

In a recent speech at Columbia University, Noam Chomsky strongly criticizes the Bush Administration’s war against Iraq. He speaks against the power investors have over world affairs, the media’s capitulation to them and much more. [includes transcript]

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